Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 930
1„ _■ ,/4j^f^^ … 9IO TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. level than the road in what is now a vineyard. The soil inwhich this catacomb is made is quite different from the others;instead of the granular tufa, or volcanic sand, which is the soilo-enerally used for them near the Via Appia and the Via Ardea-tina, this is an alluvial…
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